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9780203996201

Understanding Care, Welfare and Community : A Reader

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203996201

  • ISBN10:

    0203996208

  • Copyright: 2001-12-06
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This reader covers a wide range of topics associated with care, welfare and community. It includes a wide-ranging collection of articles by leading writers and researchers, and first-hand accounts by users and providers of care and welfare in the community.

Table of Contents

Preface
Power and Inequality Introduction
Unsettled Lives (Extracts)
William and Teresa
The Effects of Poverty
Poverty and the Social Services
Witness to Welfare (Extracts)
The History of Community Care for People with Learning Difficulties
Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People's Movement
Campaigning and the Pensioners' Movement
Settling in and Moving On
Paying for Nursing Home Care
Difference and Identity Introduction
Different Communities (Extracts)
The Regeneration of Communities
Social Change, Networks and Family Life
Problematizing Social Care Needs in Minority Communities
A Child's View of Care in the Community
Community and Stigma (Extracts)
Ageing, Learning Difficulties and Maintaining Independence
Whiteness and Emotions in Social Care
On Becoming a Disabled Person
Remind me who I Am, Again
Rights and Risks Introduction
Risk and Dangerousness
Evaluating Self-Determination
Out of This World
The Prospect of Residential Care
Independence, Privacy and Risk
Malignant Social Psychology
Exposing Abuse in Care Homes
Regulating Informality: Small Homes and the Inspectors
Community Care Law and the Human Rights Act 1998
Self-Advocacy for People with Learning Difficulties Part Four: Territories and Boundaries Introduction
Community Care in the Information Age
Providing Support (Extracts)
Carework and Bodywork
European Policies on Home Care Services Compared
The Boundaries Between Health and Social Care Assessment in Action
The Importance of Housing and Home
Partnership Between Disabled People and Service Providers
Care as a Commodity
Good Companions (Extracts)
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